A global debate is raging about whether Tamiflu production can be ramped up, even if the maker, Roche, bows to pressure to license its production to other companies.

Job growth was meager in October, the Labor Department reported, in a sign that executives may be worried about the economic damage from high energy prices.

Young, fashion-driven women are the customers the Estée Lauder Companies had in mind when it signed up Tom Ford to create cosmetics and a fragrance.

Using Web sites to research properties can be beneficial as real estate markets across the United States begin cooling.

Unions representing Northwest Airlines workers appear to be acquiescing to the carrier's demand for interim annual pay cuts totaling about $840 million.

HIGHER energy prices are bruising American automakers, worrying consumers and hobbling manufacturers, as several events made clear this week. But energy costs are not yet causing inflation to accelerate appreciably, the Federal Reserve concluded.

The building of houses, which buoyed the American economy during the 2001 recession and then spurred the recovery, is no longer leading the economy up.

The future for Refco, the fallen futures and commodities brokerage firm, looked a little brighter yesterday as five bidders submitted offers before a 4 p.m. deadline.

It's shaping up to be a more expensive winter - and not just because of the way rising fuel prices will kick up the cost of filling up your car or heating your home.

Noël Forgeard, the co-chief executive of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, is seeing his company challenge Boeing's grip on Pentagon contracts.

Europe's third-largest utility plans to sell Thames Water of London and the American Water Works Company of New Jersey, abandoning an expansion that drew investments away from growing energy markets.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - With critics hammering Wal-Mart day after day, the company sponsored an unusual conference on Friday about its impact on America's economy, and it got some good - and a few not so good - grades.

THE gray-haired master barber Boris Mirzakandov leaned over and pressed the sharp steely blade of his straight razor against my throat. My entire face and body went limp. I closed my eyes. Scents of sandalwood, cloves and black pepper filled my nostrils. I felt the razor scrape a glob of shaving cream from my Adam's apple.

Cnet News.com is considering Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s heft on matters involving technology business, free speech, privacy and copyright.

What Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates have to say in the current issue of Fortune is bound to depress those long the market.

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Net income at the Toyota Motor Corporation rose 2.1 percent in the most recent quarter on strong sales and a favorable foreign exchange rate.

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson is the subject of an inquiry into accusations of misuse of federal money and the use of phantom or unqualified employees.

Samuel A. Alito Jr. has favored big-business litigants and pushed the federal appeals court in a conservative direction.

Five months after Nike dropped his endorsement contract, Jason Giambi signed a multiyear deal with Reebok on Thursday.

For most of its existence, Wal-Mart was lauded. But now that it vies with Exxon Mobil as the largest company in the country, the worm has turned.

Liberty Bank and Trust, a black-owned financial institution damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, has labored to restore basic banking functions to customers.

Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Saturday it still expects a 3 percent to 5 percent increase in November sales at its stores open at least a year, and demand for groceries outstripped general merchandise.

Heads of 34 American states meeting in Argentina go into talks on free trade after a first day marked by riots.

As Google increasingly becomes the starting point for finding information, companies are beginning to view the company with some angst - mixed with admiration.

Heads of 34 American states meeting in Argentina struggle to find a deal on a free trade zone.

As Google increasingly becomes the starting point for finding information, companies are beginning to view the company with some angst - mixed with admiration.

Reuters - Bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp. won court approval to offer improved severance packages to 21 top executives, a company spokeswoman said on Saturday.

Reuters - Rupert Murdoch said News Corp. may form a new company with partners to allow the media giant to enter the U.S. high-speed Internet market, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

AP - Wall Street is worried about you.

Heads of 34 American states fail to reach a deal on a free trade zone, as their Argentina meeting wraps up.

Warner Brothers may make money on its next 'Harry Potter' movie, but the company is still looking to cut costs.

That 1986 tax reform achieved two powerful goals: it sharply reduced nominal tax rates and eliminated many loopholes. Could President Bush achieve a comparable breakthrough?

A funny thing happens to markets that seem able to move in only one direction: they start heading the other way.

So many kindly readers responded to my column two weeks ago on Yale and its mighty endowment that I feel bound to write a bit further.

Mimobots are a line of miniature plastic creatures that double as U.S.B. flash drives

This year, a new crop of management books urge senior executives to sweat the small stuff.

James A. Guest is the president and chief executive officer of Consumers Union.

WITH September and October - historically the two worst months on the calendar for the stock market - out of the way with minimal damage, one analyst is gearing up for a year-end rally.

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A growing acceptance of going online to find you a find, catch you a catch.

Bill Gates is no slouch in the charitable-giving department. Just last week, the foundation he founded with his wife, Melinda Gates, said it would donate $258 million to eradicate malaria, which kills 2,000 African children a day. All told, Mr. Gates has given away 37 percent of his vast fortune, Forbes magazine estimated last year.

Starting in June, Hallmark will handle the creation, production and much of the distribution of the cards in the United States.

Some owners of superyachts are increasingly inviting other wealthy vacationers to help pay the bills.

The recent decision of the Cendant Corporation to break itself into four companies reflects an underlying truth about wide-ranging conglomerates.

I HAVE never known how to think about Yahoo. I often turn to it for movie listings and driving maps. I have joined numerous Yahoo-based discussion groups, in which I read and occasionally write messages about various recreational interests. Of the more than 400 million Yahoo e-mail accounts worldwide, one belongs to me.

Dieter Zetsche, the incoming chairman of DaimlerChrysler, is part of a new generation of German executives who cut their teeth in the U.S.

Almost one year ago, Edward S. Lampert, the hedge fund manager, combined Sears with Kmart. From the looks of this combination, Mr. Lampert should stick to investing, not matchmaking.

Globalization and Alan Greenspan's own influential stewardship have steered the Fed back to something like its original state: an institution with limited power.

A snowboarding upstart makes design serve a leisure ideology.

Heads of 34 American states fail to reach a deal on a free trade zone, as their Argentina meeting wraps up.